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Since we're being pedantic... What the human race perceives as creativity is largely mashup of what others have done in a new way. Mozart? Derivative of music
by kneath 16y ago
Since we're being pedantic...
What the human race perceives as creativity is largely mashup of what others have done in a new way. Mozart? Derivative of music played by instruments. Van Gogh? Derivative of people painting on canvases.
Once you start being too picky about what an idea is, you start to lose sight of what makes the idea awesome or why creation is so much fun in the first place.
Highly relevant to this: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/ http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
- jessriedel 16y agoSurely we can draw a distinction between chatroulette and facelette in terms of originality.
- hartror 16y agoEverything has degrees of originality. Google didn't invent the search engine but they came up with a great way to monetise it (oh and some algorithm too).
- 7402 16y agoAs I once said, "Originality is the art of concealing your sources."
- aaronbrethorst 16y agoAs I [1] once said, "originality is the art of obfuscating your sources" [1] http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/1202672/benjamin-franklin/originality-is-the-art-of-concealing-your-sources http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/1202672/benjamin-franklin/o...